Leucomonia

Leucomonia is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing only one species, Leucomonia bethia, which is known from New South Wales and Queensland.

Leucomonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Sphingini
Genus: Leucomonia
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species:
L. bethia
Binomial name
Leucomonia bethia
(Kirby, 1877)[1]
Synonyms
  • Diludia bethia Kirby, 1877
  • Meganoton distinctum Rothschild, 1894

Adults have grey forewings, each with some dark angular lines and a dark dot near the middle. The hindwings are dark brown.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Clerodendrum floribundum. Early instars are green with a forward-curving dark brown tail-horn. Later instars develop diagonal white stripes on the side of each segment and the horn curves backward. There is a brown form of later instars for which the diagonal stripes are less conspicuous. Full-grown larvae are about 70 mm long. The caterpillars usually rest by day on the underside of a leaf of their foodplant. Pupation takes place in a brown pupa.[2]

References
  1. "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. "Australian Insects". Australian Insects. 2006-09-13. Archived from the original on 2010-12-05. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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